Stephen Cormier wrote: > You can use "apt-cache search linux-image smp" without the quotes and it > should show you the available smp kernels to install I'm sure there is a > way to search this using aptitude but I never have used it. Once you find
aptitude search 'linux-image smp' > a suitable one then "aptitude install linux-image-????-smp" would install > it from the command line using aptitude then of course reboot and choose > the newly installed kernel from the list presented by Grub/LILO depending > on which you are using. BTW which image did you use to install a 32 bit or > 64 bit one or does your chip(s) support 64bits. If you want to use version which is not available in binary form in debian, then you can install linux-source package (again -- aptitude search linux-source to see what's available). That will dump you patched tarball of linux sources into /usr/src. Install kernel-package and you will find more instructions in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz. Briefly it means: 1) Install all required packages (you will find a list in that README, yes, you want initramfs for kernels newer than 2.6.16, and yes you want fakeroot). 2) and then (as normal user) cd /usr/src tar xvjf linux-2.6.17.tar.bz2 # or however the tarball is called cd linux-2.6.17 cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config # to get your current configuration make menuconfig # to change configuration -- or just let it be for now make-kpkg --revision custom.1 --rootcmd fakeroot --initrd kernel-image cd .. ls linux-image*.deb # that's your new shiny package of Linux kernel su -c 'dpkg -i linux-image*.deb' # to install it Does it work? Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Marion St. #3, (617) 876-1259, ICQ 132822213 We can tell our level of faith in what God wants to do for us by our level of enthusiasm for what we want God to do for other. -- Dave Schmelzer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
